Hi Peter, On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 04:28:30PM -0500, Peter Hurley wrote: > On 02/17/2015 04:06 PM, Aristeu Rozanski wrote: > > If the console has a canonical reader and the respective tty hangs up, > > it'll waste a wake up and will never release the last ldisc reference so > > the hangup process can finish: > > This behavior is by-design; /dev/console cannot be hung-up.
hangup is issued on the tty that happens to be the console. In this case, ttyS0. > What process is sleeping on /dev/console read() and what is its controlling > tty? I ask because console teardown usually happens when SIGHUP is > received by the process group. ttyS0 is the controller tty. -- Aristeu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

